The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE public debt statement for November is
as follows. Total debt GncludIng INTEREST,"
81, G75, SIG, $50; less cash items available
for reduction Of debt and reserve hills for
redemption Of United States notes $780,
374, 00G) 81, 295, AL 1853; cash in treasury,
800, 256, 701 debt, less amount in treasury,
81 ,24O, 1873, O52. Decrease during Novem-
Der, 81, 400, $50.
THE Comptroller OF the currency in his
annual report issued On the LIST, shows that
the total number of National banks organ
lied up to October 81 was 3,S05 Of which
G25 had gone into voluntary liquidation and
1l9 had failed, leaving in operation at that
date 3,061
THE Commissioner Of Agriculture in his
annual report on the LIST says that the work
in his department. in suppresslng pneu-
monia among cattle progressed favorably
during the year, and he believes that this
dangerous plague can be exterminat2d by
the end of the next fiscal year.
This years cotton crop is estima led at g.
$50, 600 bales.
TIE Interstate Commerce Commission
made public their first annual report on the
I'd The report says that the operation of
the law has in general been beneficial; COM
plants of unjust discrimination by railways
are less frequent; the pooling Of freights
and of railway earnings has come TO an end,
| and, as rule, obedience to the law is gen.
eral
THE wheat crop of the Northwest was on
the 81 placed at 80. 600, 900 bushela
THERE were 215 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the I'd, against 2O5 the previous seven
days.
TrTrg nL t,,r I1o
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggregated
81 113, 277, 100, against SOIL, 98S, 363 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week Of 1886 the decrease
amounted to 17.3 per cent
THE Interstate Commission decided on
the 3 that co!ored people may be assigned
separate railway cars, but they must be
equal in accommodations to those for
whites
The receipts at tho Patent Office for the
last fiscal year amounted to ST, $50, 900,
and the expenditures 1891, 800. The num-
Der of patents granted was 81 ,732
On the 9th the Secretary Of the Treasury
transmitted to Congress the estimates of
appropri tons required for the fiscal year
ending June 80 1889. The total amount
estimated as required for all expenses OF
the Government is 1926, $50, 1893, which is
l,344, 800 more than the sum called for in
the estimates submitted last year.
THE stock of wheat in sight on the 9TH in
this country amounted to 40, 260, 974 bush
els, of corn to 5,772. 131 bushels, and of
| oats to &, 451, 751 bushels A year ago the
stock of wheat was SO, $50, 1871 bushels, of
corn l !, 738, 884 bushels, and of oats 8, $780,
| 1913 bushels
The total fire loss in this country during
November was $16,003, 975, an increase
of So, 100000 over the same mon h last
year.
The United States Supreme Court rem
dered decision on the 9th declaring that
the Kansas Prohibition law is valid The
court held that State had right under its
police power to suppress the manufacture
of liquor and the liquor traffic without
making compensation to the dealers for the
value Of the property destroyed by its &C
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